Consolidating Office 365, AAD and Azure Subscription
my current situation is as follows:
- We are running an Azure subscription that was set up with a PERSONAL Windows Live account, but the account has been set up using an email address from our actual domain.
- We have an Exchange 2013/O365 hybrid setup, with our AD syncing with O365. We have a mixture of on-premise mailboxes, E1 and E3 licenced users with mailboxes in O365.
My ultimate goal is have our local AD syncing with Azure and O365, with true SSO for users.
Forgetting the SSO bit for now (unless it has relevance at this stage), I just need to know how I can move my existing Azure subscription from the personal account into our existing Azure AD that O365 is using.
If someone can point me in the right direction as the process I need to go through I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks.
Solution 1:
This article about transferring subscriptions to another account owner probably applies to you. You can do this online.
Transfer ownership of an Azure subscription to another account
Solution 2:
If possible you will have to call support to get them to migrate your subscription. There is no self service option to migrate the subscription from your Microsoft account to your organizational account.
Solution 3:
Yes, it is possible, but we are talking about two different things. One is, who pays the bill? and the other one, which Azure AD tenant has ownership of my subscriptions?
First work with your EA provider to enable Azure services for you. They might even help you with the transfer of the subscriptions, but a commitment is probably required. EA is not paid on a monthly basis as it is PaYG, but you would be surprised by the discount that you get for compute and storage costs. So I'd recommend talking to you EA provider.
Migrating the offer:
To migrate the subscription, all you have to do is follow this guide:
Can I migrate from Pay-As-You-Go to Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) or Enterprise Agreement (EA)?
To migrate to CSP, see Azure Pas-As-You-Go Subscription Migration to CSP.
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-solution-provider/migration/migration-from-payg-to-csp
To migrate to EA, have your Enrollment Admin add your account into the EA. Follow instructions in the invitation email to have your subscriptions moved under EA enrollment. To learn more, see Associate an Existing Account in the EA portal.
https://ea.azure.com/helpdocs/associateExistingAccount
More info here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-how-to-switch-azure-offer
Migrating the directory:
Now, to change the directory associated with the subscription, that is, from your personal Azure AD tenant to your corporate Azure AD tenant, follow this guide:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-how-subscriptions-associated-directory